# Excerpts show emoji codes (and not emojis)

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/excerpts-show-emoji-codes-and-not-emojis/55106
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [January 3, 2017, 1:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/excerpts-show-emoji-codes-and-not-emojis/55106 "2017-01-03T13:03:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![ChrisBeach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/chrisbeach/32/214628_2.png) [@ChrisBeach](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ChrisBeach)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2017, 1:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/excerpts-show-emoji-codes-and-not-emojis/55106/1 "2017-01-03T13:03:26Z")

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![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/0/d/0d56285b388f06cd55a8473434f422f982221c9d.png)

Could the emoji codes e.g. `:sparkles: ` be either stripped from the excerpt, or converted to emojis?

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### Author: ![ChrisBeach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/chrisbeach/32/214628_2.png) [@ChrisBeach](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ChrisBeach)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2017, 10:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/excerpts-show-emoji-codes-and-not-emojis/55106/2 "2017-01-08T22:50:19Z")

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Also, the [image] placeholders are distracting and shouldn’t be included in the excerpt IMO:

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/4/3/433db9265b5d3aba19af87266c1ee21dbca9d292.PNG)

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### Author: ![grahamperrin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/grahamperrin/32/71406_2.png) [@grahamperrin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/grahamperrin)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2017, 1:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/excerpts-show-emoji-codes-and-not-emojis/55106/3 "2017-05-04T01:09:05Z")

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Seven more examples: [Categorisation, tagging, default appearance - #30 by grahamperrin - Forum feedback - Open Source Design](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/-/21/30)

> [@ChrisBeach](#):
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> … [image] placeholders …

Yeah, I have seen that too, can’t recall where.

## Suggestion

In lieu of multiple consecutive non-rendered elements, e.g.:

> > [image] [image] Dear SE23 …

– a single ellipsis, e.g.:

> > … Dear SE23 …

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### Author: ![DeanMarkTaylor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/deanmarktaylor/32/102462_2.png) [@DeanMarkTaylor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DeanMarkTaylor)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2017, 1:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/excerpts-show-emoji-codes-and-not-emojis/55106/4 "2017-05-04T01:21:31Z")

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Perhaps a picture emoji? 🖼

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### Author: ![grahamperrin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/grahamperrin/32/71406_2.png) [@grahamperrin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/grahamperrin)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2017, 2:16am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/excerpts-show-emoji-codes-and-not-emojis/55106/5 "2017-05-04T02:16:01Z")

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> [@DeanMarkTaylor](#):
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> Perhaps a picture emoji? 🖼

OT, but I more than `:slight_smile:`d when my desktop notification of that post showed

> Perhaps a picture emoji? `:frame_photo:`

**Postscript**

Maybe back on topic (if some types of notification are excerpt-based):

- the notification on Discourse for Android presented an **unintelligible character** in lieu of the framed photograph

– impossible for me to capture a screenshot, sorry.